Improvement in attachments for stenciling-pens



F. P. WOODBURY. Attachment for Stenciling-Pens.

No. 202,913. Patented April 23,1878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FRANK P. WOODBURY, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT lN ATTACHMENTS FOR STENClLlNG-PENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 202,913, dated April23, 1878; application filed October 19, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK P. WOODBURY, of Rockford, in the county ofWinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Attachment for Edisons Electric Pen, of which thefollowing is aspecification:

The invention relates to the holding of Edisons electric pen, which mustotherwise, from the mechanical necessity of its use, he held by the.hand perpendicularly or at some inconvenient angle.

Heretofore Edisons electric pen has been grasped by the hand and held byit perpendicularly, or nearly so, or at an inconvenient angle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the ordinary mode ofholding the electric pen, as required by its mechanical construction.Fig. 2 represents the same pen with my device attached; and Fig. 3 showsmore in detail the various parts of such attachment.

The common method is objectionable on account of the constrainedposition of the hand in writing, and for the reason that when the pen ormarker is heavy it must be grasped firmly to hold it up, which soontires the hand. The maintenance of a perpendicular position, or one at aslight remove from the perpendicular, is a necessity in the use of theelectric pen.

The object of my invention is to provide an attachment or handle for theelectric pen, whereby the pen is kept at the perpendicular, while thehand takes my holder at any angle, slant, or direction in which the useris accustomed to hold a common pen or pencil. (See Fig. 2.)

My invention is depicted in Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawings.

The jacket A incloses the pen which is to be held; or the parts B, G,and D may be permanently attached to the stem (Fig. 2, K) of the pen.The holder Bis adjustable, by means of the thumb-screw O, to any angledesired by the user. The support D rests on the paper at a level withthe point of the pen, and keeps it from swaying sidewise.

When the device is in use, the support D, the point of the pen, and theresting of the hand on the table make a supporting-base at three points,and hold the pen easily and securely in position. When it is desired tomove the pen along the paper without marking, a slight tipping of thepen toward the support D raises the pen-point, and the entire systemslides along on the burnished bulb at D, without necessitating a liftingof the whole weight by the hand.

If the surface of the paper is rough, a pivoted caster can besubstituted for the bulb on the end of D, as shown at E.

The operation of the device is that of writing or operating easily andnaturally, therefore without constraint or fatigue, while the penremains at or near the perpendicular, so that, if it had to be graspeddirectly by the hand, the writing would proceed with difliculty.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The upright column of support A, in combination with the support D andthe holder or handle B, placed at any convenient angle, substantially asshown and described.

FRANK P. XVOODBURY.

Witnesses:

ALLEN F. PHILLIPS, BENJAMIN FoLTz.

